Safety mailing-chute



C. E. WINSTEAD.

SAFETY MAILING CHUTE.

APPLICATION FILED AUG- 10. 1918.

Patented Feb. 15, 1921.

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Patented Feb. 15, 1921.

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Patented Feb. 15, 1921.

Application filed August 10, 1918. Serial No. 249,249.

in safety mailing chutes for post-offices, the

purpose being to provide a chute which will admit the mail matter to the right, left, or directly in front accordingly as it is placed and adjusted and provided with means which will prevent an unauthorized person from extracting anything therefrom after it has been dropped into the chute.

With the foregoing in vlew, my invention consists in a portablechute constructed and adapted to be fastened at a window, it having means 'for attachment thereto, as well as means for support upon the floor, and in connection therewith it may have an attachment for the delivery of the mail matter from the chute either to the right, left, or center as desired.

In the accompanying drawings Figure 1 is a vertical section showing the chute dumping directly in front;

Fig. 2 is a view showing it attached to dump to the right;

Fig. 3 is a section through. this ment.

Fig. 4; is a view of the construction shown in Fig. 3 in vertical longitudinal section.

A, represents the chute, preferably made of sheetmetal or wood and sheet-metal, the central portion 1 of which is in the form of a circular casing, and revolubly supported within this casing is the revolving center 2, mounted on ahorizontal support or hearing 3, upon which the center turns freely, this center forming a closure which readily yields or turns with the weight of a pack age or parcel on one of its wings or blades, dropping the latter on the inclined portion 4 of the chute into a .removable receptacle 5 beneath.

The open mouth 6 of the chute rests attachagainst and incloses the mailing-window 7,

and the chute is removably held in this position by the posts or pillars 8 resting upon the floor and the upturned flange 9 at the top which is screw or otherwise fastened to the window-casing above the window and the right-angular side-brackets 10.

A shelf 11 is, for convenience, placed below the window on which to receive or rest the package or parcel preparatory to its being dumped into the receptacle 5.

This chute can be easily and inexpensively manufactured and its utility has already been thoroughly tested and demon strated. It is easily placed and adjusted and it consists in few and simple parts not likely to get out of order and is effectual in the performance of. its functions.

When it is desirable to dump the contents of the chute either to the right or to the left, instead of in the middle, an additional receiving-box 12 is removably fastened over the window in place of the chute, and the chute is removably fastened to it, as shown in Figs. 2 and 3. This box is supported on a post 13.

A. bracket 15 on the lower side of the chute is fastened to the casing adjacent one of the posts.

It is understood, of course, when it is desired to discharge in the opposite direction this receiving-box is reversed, or is made in a reverse form.

I claim:

A safety mailing-chute including an upright frame, a casing, a portion of which is cylindrical, a cylinder pivotally mounted therein and subdivided into compartments with an opening through the frame on one I side and to the floor on the other side, removable sections detachably connected with his CHARLES X E. WINSTEAD.

mark Witnesses:

E. T. BARNES, A. L. DARDEN. 

